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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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